Re: More precise tag following

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 28, 2007, 21:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vveiqdfpj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701281143190.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> I was hoping to take a look at Shawn's git-gui and also perhaps
>> looking into adding blame --incremental support to gitk myself
>> when I have time, but unfortunately my day-job deadline is
>> spilling into this weekend.
>
> I think the nice thing about the new "git-blame --incremental" is that it 
> allows people who really don't know (or care) anything at all about git 
> internals to do the viewer. So you shouldn't need to care.
>
> So I don't think you should do it, we should encourage others (who may not 
> be comfy with writing hard-core C that touches subtle internal git issues) 
> to just do it.

Good points.

I won't, although I've added fixed-up version of Jeff's as an example under contrib/ -- I hope Jeff does not mind.

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> ...
> I think it would be nice if the *dirty* lines would actually get blamed to 
> a fake commit (SHA-1 "00000000..") that is the "current working tree. 
> ...
> No?

Yeah.  That sounds sensible.